Grassed (as opposed to “beached”)
On my way home from my shoot Saturday, I caught a glimpse through the trees of this abandoned back yard treasure as I drove off the exit ramp. Not wanting to stop ON the exit ramp, I turned in the direction of the boat and found a driveway leading to an abandoned house, all boarded [...]
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Camera raw and HDR, in the Driver’s Seat
The wonders of modern technology are an artist’s dreams come true. Here’s the original camera raw file as shot, straight out of the camera: SAME FILE, after being processed as HDR and tonemapped with Photomatrix, then tweaked and toned in Photoshop and Topaz Detail: Can you say WOW?! ALL that detail and color was actually [...]
More grunge. I’m in a groove.
PURCHASE PRINTS! To date, I’ve shot this old truck from every imaginable angle and in every season (except snow). So recently, when I revealed this treasure to a new photo buddy of mine (Sonja), I felt a bit challenged to find some new approach to one of my favorite and most familiar subjects. This compelled [...]
Medicine Bottles
PURCHASE PRINTS! It was my original intention to write something inspiring or insightful to accompany this image of an old wooden box of bottles I found tucked under a board in an old abandoned barn. But when it was done, I thought…BLEH. What I wrote wasn’t entirely bad…nor was it entirely good. Not sure if [...]
Light My Path
(I’ll eventually get this whole thumbnail thing figured out for this theme, but until then, for a larger view of this image, click on the preview on the home page.) I’ve never been a creative purist. In life, perhaps HOW you get to a place is as–if not MORE–important than where you get to. Imagery [...]
Local Farm Workers
This is an old antique tractor that sits on display in a neighbor’s field. The background of the original setting was not horrible, but neither was it very interesting. So I start plundering through my collection for some background images that needed a little something extra to make THEM more interesting. An old shot of [...]
Cold Seat
It’s snowing in South Carolina! I haven’t felt well this weekend but HAD to take the camera out to seek out a shot or two of this uncommon southern rarity before it disappears. Shooting this outhouse during the snow gave me pause to be eternally grateful for modern indoor plumbing!
Roadside Farmstead
I got this shot while on one of my photo expeditions (affectionately called ‘photo hunts’) with my friend, Karen Osborne. We had just left a tour of the Poinsette Bridge and took a wrong turn, but a wrong turn with some fantastic country views. We eventually reluctantly turned back for fear we might end up [...]
Overlook on Skyline Drive
I have a thing for old antique trucks. I discovered this particular treasure in the spring of 2009 on a trip from South Carolina to Indiana with a good friend. We had stopped at a Quick Mart in North Carolina for a fill-up, a bathroom stop and some travel snacks and I spotted this truck [...]
